Showing posts with label collapse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collapse. Show all posts

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Obamacare on Road to Collapse?

For all the democrats trying to tout the popularity of Obamacare it doesn't seem to be burning up at enrollment.

EXCLUSIVE: Just 51,000 people completed Obamacare applications during the website's first week, out of tens of millions of Americans in 36 states
Just 51,000 people completed Obamacare applications during the first week the Healthcare.gov website was online, according to two sources inside the Department of Health and Human Services who gave MailOnline an exclusive look at the earliest enrollment numbers.
The career civil servants, who process data inside the agency, confirmed independently that just 6,200 Americans applied for health insurance through the problem-plagued website on October 1, the day it first opened to the public.
Neither HHS nor the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would comment on the record about the numbers. Enroll America, the president's organization of health care 'navigators' who are charged with helping Americans sign up, didn't reply to a request for information about its level of success so far.
The White House also did not respond to emails seeking comment.
But several administration officials have claimed this month that they didn't have access to the kinds of raw figures MailOnline obtained from the people who work for them. And the anemic totals suggest a far lower level of interest in coverage through the Affordable Care Act than the Obama administration has hoped to see.~snip~

I wonder if the low level of interest has anything to do with the doubling or more of premiums and the pathetically huge deductibles offered by Obamacare?
 If the state-run exchanges were to have a similar response rate for six months, the national enrollment total would be approximately 2 million.
That number is less than 29 per cent of the 7 million the Obama administration would need, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, in order to balance the new health insurance system's books and keep it from financial collapse.
The real danger here is that when Obamacare gets to the point where it is in imminent collapse that Obama and the democrats will respond by enrolling everyone in the non-affordable care act and then use the power of the partisan IRS to seize whatever revenue is required to prop up Obama's "signature" piece of legislation.
There ain't no way the socialists in the democrap party will allow O-care to collapse.
 After all, the democrats already believe that anything we have is theirs anyway so why not confiscate what they choose to for our good?

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Worse than the Disease

I've been doing a little reading on healthcare and the upcoming Obamacare fiasco that we're all facing and have come to a few conclusions.
First off there's no doubt in my mind that healthcare in America needs some kind of reform. Just ask anyone who's been presented with a bill from a hospital that equals 2x's or more their annual salary.
I've been alive long enough to watch health care costs soar astronomically with absolutely no attempt by the industry to control the costs.
Which, IMO, is why the backlash against Obamacare hasn't been overwhelming enough yet to force the politicians to go back to the drawing board.
For an idea how bad it can be see this article.

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

When we can be charged up to 1000% above the cost then something is really wrong with the system.
Don't get me wrong, I believe in fair market principles and the need to make a profit but when there is absolutely no information to make an informed decision prior to your life being on the line then the idea of fair market kind of goes out the window.

If the health industry don't like what's coming then they have themselves to blame for the most part, but then again as far as I can tell Obamacare does very little to control what hospitals and insurance companies can charge so they won't feel much pressure to change.
Which brings me to the obvious next step in our healthcare nightmare, the fact that Obamacare is basically designed to collapse under it's own weight.
The entire shift will be towards individuals to pay for insurance with ever increasing premiums in order to be insured.

Once it becomes an "entitlement" the government overlords will be under increasing pressure from more and more people who can't afford the premiums to pay more and provide more putting more pressure on the top tier to pay more in taxes to accommodate an ever greedy public and hospital administrators.
For a taste of what's coming in the near term read this.

Daniel Kessler: The Coming ObamaCare Shock

This will not end well for anyone and the potential for a lot of suffering in the next few years is pretty much assured.
Health care reform is needed, but not Obamacare and I'm afraid that it will take the complete collapse of health care as we knew it before any real changes will ever come about.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Pravda:America Repeating Soviet Mistake

OK.... Pravda, once the official propaganda rag of the Soviet Union, sees parallels between Obama, Lenin and Stalin and basically sees it as a bad thing, as opposed to the the New York Times which celebrates the similarity.

Obama's Soviet Mistake
Putin in 2009 outlined his strategy for economic success. Alas, poor Obama did the opposite but nevertheless was re-elected. Bye, bye Miss American Pie. The Communists have won in America with Obama but failed miserably in Russia with Zyuganov who only received 17% of the vote. Vladimir Putin was re-elected as President keeping the NWO order out of Russia while America continues to repeat the Soviet mistake.
After Obama was elected in his first term as president the then Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin gave a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January of 2009. Ignored by the West as usual, Putin gave insightful and helpful advice to help the world economy and saying the world should avoid the Soviet mistake.
Recently, Obama has been re-elected for a 2nd term by an illiterate society and he is ready to continue his lies of less taxes while he raises them. He gives speeches of peace and love in the world while he promotes wars as he did in Egypt, Libya and Syria. He plans his next war is with Iran as he fires or demotes his generals who get in the way.
I'm not surprised that what is so apparent to the former Soviet Union would be less than obvious to Americans. After all, they lived through it until the collapse of communism in Europe. I can remember during most of the years I was growing up that communism was portrayed as an enemy to freedom. I remember  hearing about Khrushchev saying, "We will bury you!" and people getting instructions for building fallout shelters and seeing commercials on TV and films in school on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. (bending over and kissing your ass good bye didn't come along til much later.)

The point being that society was educated about communism/socialist oppression, even the media and most democrats were against it as long as democrats were in charge. But then communism collapsed and society turned it's attention to other things. The problem is we ended up ignoring the communist/socialists among us and allowed them to weasel their way through society, popular culture and media. We allowed them to infiltrate our education system, a political party and our government because with the collapse of communist Europe we felt secure that communism/socialism wasn't a threat anymore.

We defeated communism in Europe but ignored it in America and now we are paying a price by re-electing Obama who is seen by our former enemies for what he really is,the tyrant that the former Soviet Union has tried to free themselves from.
We are victims of our own success, we freed Europe and are heading to enslaving ourselves because we forgot who the enemy really is.